On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquy...@cisco.com
> wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2013, at 1:42 PM, Brice Goglin <brice.gog...@inria.fr>
> wrote:
>
> > My first code did that (with "all" instead of "*" because come shells
> > don't like * :)
>
> Oh, right -- duh! :-)
>
> > But my testing told me that there were many more cases where we want
> > everything ("all") than nothing else ("stop"), so changed to "nothing
> else".
> > But users are not going to play with the list of components very often
> > anyway, so I think that'd be ok too.
>
>
> Fair enough.
>
> So if you don't know the list of available components, is it not possible
> to specify *only* foo and bar should be used?
>
>
<humor>
That's where one should use "!", to indicate that we are being emphatic:
COMPONENTS=!foo,bar
No chance of confusion there, right?
</humor>
Seriously, I think "COMPONENTS=foo,bar,stop" was the syntax mentioned
earlier in this thread.
-Paul
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